30 CHAPTER 3—PARLIAMENT Part A—LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY Legislative authority and power of Parliament 46.—(1) The authority and power to make laws for the State is vested in Parliament consisting of the members of Parliament and the President, and is exercised through the enactment of Bills passed by Parliament and assented to by the President. (2) No person or body other than Parliament has authority to make any law in Fiji, except under authority conferred by this Constitution or by a written law. Exercise of legislative powers 47.—(1) Any member of Parliament may introduce a Bill in Parliament, but only the Minister responsible for finance, or another Minister authorised by Cabinet, may introduce a Money Bill, as described in subsection (4). (2) Parliament may proceed to consider any Bill in accordance with its standing orders, which must provide— (a) a structured process for the introduction, deliberation, amendment and enactment of Bills; and (b) sufficient time to elapse between the steps in the process for members and committees to give due consideration to each Bill. (3) A Bill may proceed more quickly than permitted by the standing orders if— (a) when the Bill was introduced, the mover requested that Parliament approve consideration of the Bill without delay; and (b) a majority of the members of Parliament voted in support of that request. (4) In this section, a Money Bill is any Bill that— (a) imposes, increases, alters, remits, grants exemptions from, reduces or abolishes taxes; (b) imposes charges on a public fund or varies or repeals any of those charges; (c) appropriates public money or otherwise relates to public moneys; (d) raises or guarantees any loan, or its repayment; (e) deals with the receipt, custody, investment, issue or audit of money; or (f) deals with anything incidental to those matters.